Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Speaking of Partisans and the News...   An article in this morning's New York Times reports on research, released in the latest's Americian Political Science Review, that finds a connection between genetics and views on hot-button social issues like abortion or evolution. The genetic argument is new for political scientists, though there has always been strong connections drawn between environment and political affiliation. Although the methods used are very sterile-- essentially a secondary analysis of some preexisting studies of twins -- the findings make sense intuitively even as they only go so far. It's another way of explaining how some people continue to accept arguments for the war in Iraq despite growing evidence against the rationale and the ethics used to take us there. l 9:51:59 AM     comment []

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